Here is the master sheet where I start each year's exam questions. I tweak it (leave out things or add things) depending on the year and student.
AO Year __ Term __ Exam
NAME * SCHOOL YEAR * Grade __ * DATE OF EXAM
BIBLE
1. In your own words, tell about your favorite character that you read in your Bible reading this term.
2. In your own words, tell about your favorite event that you read in your Bible reading this term.
WRITING (handwriting and cursive)
Write 2-4 lines of a poem that you memorized this term.
Copy a sentence into cursive.
DICTATION/SPELLING
(read sentence or paragraph for child to write)
COMPOSITION FROM LITERATURE
1. Describe your favorite scene or character from the Shakespeare play you read this term.
2. Tell a story about --
3. Tell a story about --
GRAMMAR
Underline the subject and circle the predicate in the following quote:
(Text to be included)
HISTORY
Include Century Book (timeline)
GEOGRAPHY
Include Map Notebook
NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE
Include Nature Notebook
READING SKILLS
Father or friend to select a passage for student to read aloud.
ARITHMETIC
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
PICTURE STUDY
Describe your favorite picture from this term's picture study.
SINGING
Sing this term's folksong and a hymn, which the father may choose from the three learned this term, in front of parents.
HANDICRAFTS
Show some work in handicrafts from this term to someone outside your family.
COMPOSER STUDY
Describe your favorite story from this term's composer study.
CITIZENSHIP/GOVERNMENT
(Plutarch)
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Ambeside Online Year 02 Booklist - Modified
I have taken the Ambleside Online year as my core and then tweaked it a little bit depending on what books I already have and what I've gleaned from others.
http://amblesideonline.org/02bks.shtml and http://higherupandfurtherin.blogspot.com/2006/12/year-2-program-and-booklist.html
*Term 1, **Term 2, ***Term 3, no * means book will be read through all three terms
BIBLE:
New Testament - reading from the Bible and Children’s Bible
Tiger and Tom by JE White
*Wisdom and the Millers by Mildred Martin
** A is for Adam by Ken Ham
***George Muller by Benge and Real Heroes Wear Jeans by Tim Hansel
HABIT TRAINING
Laying Down The Rails
**What the Bible says about being a Girl/Boy publ. By Pearables
HISTORY
TERM 1
An Island Story ch 22-32 (1066-1189, Harold II Henry II)
Lief the Lucky by D'AulaireA
Child's History of the World by Virgil Hillyer ch 47, ch 49-53, 1000 AD Charlemaigne, Vikings Peter the Hermit; 800-1100
TERM 2
An Island Story ch 33-50 (1189-1399, Richard I Richard II)
A Child's History of the World by Hillyer ch 54-57 Richard I-John I Magna Charta, 1189-1215
TERM 3
An Island Story ch 51-61 (1399-1553, Henry IV-Henry VII)
This Country of Ours ch 2-5 (Columbus, 1492-1497, Henry VII)
A Child's History of the World by Virgil Hillyer ch 58-61 (Marco Polo-Joan of Arc; 1275-1456)
AMERICAN HISTORY
TruthQuest Vol 1
HISTORY TALES AND/OR BIOGRAPHY
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula (selected chapters)
* ** The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge
*** Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
GEOGRAPHY
* **Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling
** ***Seabird by Holling C. Holling
** How we Learned the Earth is Round by Patricia Lauber
NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE
The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
The Storybook of Science - finish in the summer
Explore Creation with Botany (2nd half)
* What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs (spend 6 wks)
* ** The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
**Christian Liberty Nature Reader #2
*** Pagoo by Holling C Holling
MATHEMATICS
Math U See
**The King's Commissioners by Aileen Friedman (ILL)
Math computer game CDs
Math Songs CDs
POETRY
* Walter De La Mare
**Eugene Field and James Whitcombe Riley
*** Christina Rossetti
LITERATURE
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Pilgrim's Progress Book by John Bunyan
Among the Farm Yard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson
The Children’s Book of Virtues edited by W. Bennett
* Teddy's Button by Amy LeFeuvre Written in: 1890
** The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
*** Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (this book may be continued into the summer if necessary to finish)
ADDITIONAL BOOKS FOR FREE READING - these are books that no child should miss, but rather than overloading school time, these can be read during free time. No narrations need be required from these books. Parents should explain to students that historical fiction, while often well-researched, is still fiction, and contains the author's ideas of how things might have happened.(Books with asterisks pertain to that term's historical studies)
Heidi by Joanna Spyri (J SPY)
A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne (292 HAW)
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (808 HAW)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney (J SID
Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales
Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'Aulaire
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit (J NES)
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers (some versions say "revised" because P.L. Travers revised chapter 6 herself in 1981 to get rid of some rather nasty racist things.)
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry (J F HEN)
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle (J PLY)
Chanticleer and the Fox - Barbara Cooney's is one version (E CHA)
Along Came A Dog by Meindert De Jong (Clarkesville-J DEJ)
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli (J DEA)
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
Twenty and Ten
A Lion to Guard Us
Art/Drawing
from nature and from history/literature tales
I Can Do All Things
Children's Play
Literature SelectionThe Children are writing and directing the play as a present to the adults on Christmas Eve.
Copywork and Cursive
Transcribe (copy) simple phrases from Bible, Poetry, GW Rules, and Literature
Pictures in Cursive Primer by Queen Homeschool
Grammar/Spelling
Language Lesson by Queen Homeschool and Spelling Wisdom by J. Fulbright
http://amblesideonline.org/02bks.shtml and http://higherupandfurtherin.blogspot.com/2006/12/year-2-program-and-booklist.html
*Term 1, **Term 2, ***Term 3, no * means book will be read through all three terms
BIBLE:
New Testament - reading from the Bible and Children’s Bible
Tiger and Tom by JE White
*Wisdom and the Millers by Mildred Martin
** A is for Adam by Ken Ham
***George Muller by Benge and Real Heroes Wear Jeans by Tim Hansel
HABIT TRAINING
Laying Down The Rails
**What the Bible says about being a Girl/Boy publ. By Pearables
HISTORY
TERM 1
An Island Story ch 22-32 (1066-1189, Harold II Henry II)
Lief the Lucky by D'AulaireA
Child's History of the World by Virgil Hillyer ch 47, ch 49-53, 1000 AD Charlemaigne, Vikings Peter the Hermit; 800-1100
TERM 2
An Island Story ch 33-50 (1189-1399, Richard I Richard II)
A Child's History of the World by Hillyer ch 54-57 Richard I-John I Magna Charta, 1189-1215
TERM 3
An Island Story ch 51-61 (1399-1553, Henry IV-Henry VII)
This Country of Ours ch 2-5 (Columbus, 1492-1497, Henry VII)
A Child's History of the World by Virgil Hillyer ch 58-61 (Marco Polo-Joan of Arc; 1275-1456)
AMERICAN HISTORY
TruthQuest Vol 1
HISTORY TALES AND/OR BIOGRAPHY
Trial and Triumph by Richard Hannula (selected chapters)
* ** The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge
*** Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
GEOGRAPHY
* **Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling
** ***Seabird by Holling C. Holling
** How we Learned the Earth is Round by Patricia Lauber
NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE
The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
The Storybook of Science - finish in the summer
Explore Creation with Botany (2nd half)
* What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs (spend 6 wks)
* ** The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess
**Christian Liberty Nature Reader #2
*** Pagoo by Holling C Holling
MATHEMATICS
Math U See
**The King's Commissioners by Aileen Friedman (ILL)
Math computer game CDs
Math Songs CDs
POETRY
* Walter De La Mare
**Eugene Field and James Whitcombe Riley
*** Christina Rossetti
LITERATURE
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Pilgrim's Progress Book by John Bunyan
Among the Farm Yard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson
The Children’s Book of Virtues edited by W. Bennett
* Teddy's Button by Amy LeFeuvre Written in: 1890
** The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
*** Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (this book may be continued into the summer if necessary to finish)
ADDITIONAL BOOKS FOR FREE READING - these are books that no child should miss, but rather than overloading school time, these can be read during free time. No narrations need be required from these books. Parents should explain to students that historical fiction, while often well-researched, is still fiction, and contains the author's ideas of how things might have happened.(Books with asterisks pertain to that term's historical studies)
Heidi by Joanna Spyri (J SPY)
A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne (292 HAW)
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (808 HAW)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney (J SID
Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales
Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning
Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'Aulaire
Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit (J NES)
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers (some versions say "revised" because P.L. Travers revised chapter 6 herself in 1981 to get rid of some rather nasty racist things.)
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry (J F HEN)
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle (J PLY)
Chanticleer and the Fox - Barbara Cooney's is one version (E CHA)
Along Came A Dog by Meindert De Jong (Clarkesville-J DEJ)
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli (J DEA)
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
Twenty and Ten
A Lion to Guard Us
Art/Drawing
from nature and from history/literature tales
I Can Do All Things
Children's Play
Literature SelectionThe Children are writing and directing the play as a present to the adults on Christmas Eve.
Copywork and Cursive
Transcribe (copy) simple phrases from Bible, Poetry, GW Rules, and Literature
Pictures in Cursive Primer by Queen Homeschool
Grammar/Spelling
Language Lesson by Queen Homeschool and Spelling Wisdom by J. Fulbright
Examinations the Charlotte Mason Way
If it wasn't for Linda Fay I would still be struggling to do exams. Here is the link to read what she says http://www.charlottemasonhelp.com/2009/07/examinations.html.
I also received help for some of these questions from http://www.amblesideonline.org/ExamAOExams.shtml and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AOExams/?yguid=374109584.
One more recent blog post that got me motivated to work on and post my exams is http://ohpeacefulday.blogspot.com/2009/11/charlotte-mason-and-exams.html.
Barb at Harmony Art Mom wrote a good post about Exams with more links:
http://harmonyartmom.blogspot.com/2010/01/charlotte-mason-style-exams-resources.html
I also received help for some of these questions from http://www.amblesideonline.org/ExamAOExams.shtml and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AOExams/?yguid=374109584.
One more recent blog post that got me motivated to work on and post my exams is http://ohpeacefulday.blogspot.com/2009/11/charlotte-mason-and-exams.html.
Barb at Harmony Art Mom wrote a good post about Exams with more links:
http://harmonyartmom.blogspot.com/2010/01/charlotte-mason-style-exams-resources.html
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